Dropped into Permies

Hello,
I was just attempting to login in response to an article about "Appropriate Technology". I misentered my password once (I think), and was dropped into another site called "Permies". Once there, I entered the correct username and password (later verified on coderanch). But, the password was rejected multiple times.

This made me somewhat uneasy. I have since changed my coderanch password. I have looked up "Permies", and perhaps it is just a special offshoot of coderanch of which I had been unaware. However this behavior looked a bit like a phishing site, as it had a login form, and the page looks a lot like coderanch.

Ahh, I suppose you went through the journal and clicked on a link that takes you to Permies, and tried to log in before you realized you were taken to another site.

Permies is a website about permaculture that our trailboss started a long time ago. They're closely related to CodeRanch first of all because it's also Paul's, and secondly because they use the same software.

I understand the panic as it could appear like a phishing site, but it's a legitimate sister site that you don't have to worry about (and may even want to join!)

The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure that it will ever be able to figure itself out, everything else, maybe. From the atom to the universe, everything, except itself.

permies.com/forums is another site of forums, which belongs to Paul Wheaton too. It is about permaculture, you can read its home page to get a better idea.

You password have been rejected because you don't have an account there I presume, which most likely you don't.
Yes, both forums (coderanch and permies) have similarities, because both of them running on JForum software, hence both login screens look similar.

You don't have nothing to worry. In case you want to get a login at permies forums - just follow the standard process you did when you signed up on CodeRanch.

Had I looked closely at the link, I would have realized it was not for a site where I had a username. So, that is IMHO the fullest information I can provide. I will leave it up to you, whether this is a bug in a mailing list, the wording should be more explicit, or just me (this OP) who should be more aware of surroundings.